There are 2 main definitions of Vaudois in English:

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noun (plural same)

The church of Rome and its Italian princes had deeply disgraced themselves by their conduct to the unhappy Vaudois.

Milton's sonnet itself was only one episode in a long series of British connections with the Waldensians, not only in centuries when they were usually referred to as Vaudois but in the age of Italian unification when they became Valdesi.